UH was selected to host NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, which comes with an award of up to $210 million over five years.
Researchers found these ocean features create a superhighway of nursery habitat for more than 100 species of commercially and ecologically important fishes.
A study, conducted by an international team of scientists from NOAA and UH Manoa, shows that many larval fish species from different ocean habitats are ingesting plastics in their preferred nursery habitat.